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Best Leadership Books of 2011

Leading Blog

These books speak to our need to rethink our core thinking, beliefs and motivations—to do the uncomfortable. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Take the Lead : Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You by Betsy Myers. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2010.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. Whatever the motives, though, SBOs do enable successive waves of add-on acquisitions to the initial divested business. ” When it comes to divestitures, bad economics usually get discounted in the transaction price.

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Ethical Consumerism Isn’t Dead, It Just Needs Better Marketing

Harvard Business Review

An often-quoted 2010 Wall Street Journal article, “ The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility ,” laid out the argument clearly: “the fact is that while companies sometimes can do well by doing good, more often they can’t.

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